Comments on: Windows Phone 8 progress not up to Nokia’s standardshttp://www.slashgear.com/windows-phone-8-progress-not-up-to-nokias-standards-29291991/
Feeding Your Gadget and Tech ObsessionsFri, 31 Oct 2014 23:36:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: AmiRamihttp://www.slashgear.com/windows-phone-8-progress-not-up-to-nokias-standards-29291991/#comment-303885
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:02:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303885I can get why Nokia is mad about the apps. IMO MS messed up by not allowing WP8 to share a common store with Windows RT and Windows 8, thus giving us the one ecosystem for all devices they promised us AND allowing the dev support of windows 8 to back up the phone.

As for the software updates though, MS is moving towards a yearly update cycle ala Apple so not sure what the issue is with that one.

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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:24:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303637And how is it comforting for Nokia to know that only in spring of 2014 will WP8 have all the apps that woo clients on other platforms? Isn’t it the point of what he’s saying that slow updates coupled with a lack of apps are slowing down the adoption of the Finns’ HW? By spring 2014 you’ll have iPhone 5s on the market, the Moto X running Key Lime Pie, possibly the successors of Galaxy S4 and One, plus a plethora of droid drones from the likes of ZTE, LG, Lenovo, Acer, Huawei or Asus. How’s Nokia supposed to survive that onslaught based on the promise that “oh, next year we’ll be on par with what you have in July 2013 on iOS and Android”?
And I don’t agree that better specs is not innovation. Yes, better coding skills could do very well with existing high end HW (which would’ve been almost unimaginable just 2 years ago) but have you seen the latest games from Gameloft? You can’t build those on WP8’s specs and devs will simply bypass the platform because you can’t drive your business based on Redmond’s promise that it will (finally!!!) support 1080p, quad-core and larger screens…
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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:13:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303636Change won’t wait for MS to get its shit straight (as Google and Apple won’t just sit by and watch), but you’re absolutely right in pointing the focus differences. I would continue your idea though by saying that while the A-team tinkered at Win8 *by taking ideas from WinPho*, it didn’t manage to produce the ‘wow’ factor that everyone expected (hence, Windows 8.1). Now they’re in the worst possible situation: choosing which one to abandon, knowing that neither of them can be abandoned…
]]>By: Obi Wan Kenobihttp://www.slashgear.com/windows-phone-8-progress-not-up-to-nokias-standards-29291991/#comment-303635
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:06:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303635For starters, WP7 was a beta for WP8 and Nokia got boned for that. They might have a good HW in place, but when devs look at the Windows Phone platform and see the retarded constraints (obligatory HW buttons, dual-cores max and only 1GB of RAM, screen resolution from 2012 -720p- and the broken promise of a ‘unified’ platform -think the low end models which had 256MB and couldn’t run Angry Turds ) then it’s becoming clear what’s wrong with the OS. Innovation doesn’t wait for MS to update its code and that’s what basically this Nokia dude’s saying: they can’t sell handsets because WinPho is just not on par with the other OS’s in terms of app ecosystem. They had to pay Rovio FFS to bring new iterations of Angry Turds to WP8…
And it’s not the carriers, MS just doesn’t release updates that fast. With Ballmer at helm it’s no wonder Surface RT or WP8 are a mess.
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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:02:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303627MS not only has lack of apps, Its basic OS updates/upgrades are very slow too, Personally i was very disappointed that MS takes that much time to correct simplest of problems in the OS.
I believe its true, Nokia’s Hardware is best in market, But combined with the very slow progress of windows 8, its going to suffer a lot.
]]>By: Nokfan1607http://www.slashgear.com/windows-phone-8-progress-not-up-to-nokias-standards-29291991/#comment-303624
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:13:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303624He also said that by the time of spring 2014 all big apps will be on Windows Phone. Why does Phone Arena only tell half of the story? In my point of view, Google has innovation with Google Glass. Now with Android, there does not seem to be much of innovation lately – better specs is obviously not innovation. Nokia together with Windows Phone bring something new and interesting to the market.
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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:03:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303619For me, I really don’t like all the squares on a win phone. It just looks ugly and cluttered. The apps aren’t there either. Android is where a lot of advancement is happening. It is getting sleeker and sleeker every year.

WinPhone? They added smaller squares. . .. . that should have been there to start with.

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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:45:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303617I can understand Nokia’s frustration. For the past two years, Microsoft has had its A-team working on Windows 8 in an attempt to align desktops and tablets. But it treated its Windows Phone team as a second-class citizen. As such, Windows Phone 8 got little of the attention, focus, and resources that were poured into Windows 8 development.

Compare that with Apple who has their A-team working on iOS which is serving the phone and tablet products, while Mac OS X development is left to fight for the scraps.

So, Nokia has been forced to compete with companies such as Apple and Google who are putting their best and brightest on mobile phone OS development while the Windows Phone team at Microsoft trudges along with fewer resources.

Perhaps things will soon change at Microsoft given their new re-org that has combined the Windows and Windows Phone teams.

]]>By: Mike E. Deltahttp://www.slashgear.com/windows-phone-8-progress-not-up-to-nokias-standards-29291991/#comment-303616
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:42:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303616Please tell me what it is about the OS that is the problem? Always this is said but never clarified, do you even know why you think that? =/
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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:25:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303613Or you could fire the CEO who was the [ex-MS] guy who killed all other development efforts (Maemo OS, Nokia Android prototype) and put all of Nokia’s eggs into MS’s basket.

Now Nokia make pretty good handsets.. and the OS is holding them back.

If it wasn’t for the cash that MS is paying Nokia it’d have died by now because of their WP bet.

]]>By: Eleeflyguy43http://www.slashgear.com/windows-phone-8-progress-not-up-to-nokias-standards-29291991/#comment-303608
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:12:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303608Its a plant to seed the idea of adopting Android? Maybe there’s was a miss in the exclusive arrangement that held Microsoft accountable for making benchmarks for APP releases.
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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:11:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303607If you have 1Billion in your pocket to pave way for an Android Department, otherwise shut up, stop dreaming, and get real.
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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:57:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303606He’s right about Windows Phone. It’s a great platform, but just lacks too many of the essential apps.
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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:56:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303605Make an Android phone, Nokia!
]]>By: Mike E. Deltahttp://www.slashgear.com/windows-phone-8-progress-not-up-to-nokias-standards-29291991/#comment-303597
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:24:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303597I would fire this guy for making the biggest PR boner ever for Nokia, like he’s just a stooge for the shareholders to undermine the CEO for them and create drama where there should be none…maybe he’s the REAL reason for the lack of movement for them? The ONLY thing he has is the updates, but it’s not like there isn’t a strangle hold from the Carriers there…or from the developers themselves, OR the competition. Shut up, “Brainiac!”
]]>By: Good ol' JShttp://www.slashgear.com/windows-phone-8-progress-not-up-to-nokias-standards-29291991/#comment-303594
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:49:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=291991#comment-303594MS is trying to kill Nokia so they can buy them cheap and with little opposition. I would love to hear Ballmer come out and say that this was the plan all along to get a cheap hardware arm and that we’ll be back to a “normal” Windows in Win9.
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